Last Tuesday 06 July 2004 08:56, Alejandro Lopez was like: > While on the topic, I seem to remember having read about a plan to > incorporate Alsa in an upcoming version of the Linux kernel, that would be > a plan to switch from OSS to Alsa as the "official" / preferred sound > support in Linux. I think I heard about it something like 1 year ago as > something that was in Linus' mind for the near future? Does this make any > sense or am I talking b_llocks here? Reason I'm asking is because of your > responses regarding Alsa support in the different distributions Mandrake / > Debian / Fedora, I was thiking hey wait a second, I thought it was part of > the kernel by now? It is in 2.6.x series kernels, however, up till now their performance hasn't matched a properly patched 2.4.2x kernel for music. So a lot of us are still using them. Have a look at the list archives, it's been a fairly hot topic for most of the last year. ;-) tim hall
